The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-19
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WEST AND SOUTH.
Buckner's majority in Kentucky is not less
than $4,000.
A-onzo Lick, flfty-scvcn years old, COM
mitted suicide by shooting, at Omaha, on Fri
day.
GU and Peter Nelson, two brothers, were
sutfocatcd in a we'll near Wayne, Nebraska,
on Friday.
The cattle commission of Illinois announce
that pleuro-pncumonia has been suppressed
In Cook county.
Complete returns from 49, voting precincts
of Texas show that prohibition was defeated
by 100000 majority.
i The Womens' Christian Temperance Union
are making arrangements for the erection of a
s6Oo, 600 building in the heart of Chicago.
Thomas Morton, editor OF the Nebraska
City News, and the Oldest journalist in the
state, died Friday night. He set the first gal
ley of type in Nebraska in November, 1854.
On Wednesday morning Bishop " Spears
peanut warehouse and Alkire u Co.'s grocery
store were burned at st. Louis. Three fire.
men were killed and two injured, one fatally.
Shaft No. 1, of Ashland mine, near Hurley,
Wisconsin, cave in Wednesday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock, killing three men and injuriug
another SO badly that he is not expected to
live.
The ''rhumb" Of the Peninsula, says a De
Il krnft jfsno4oh hoe c,ffavg1 munh frCr, fr.e
Cut grain, fences and barns have been
burned. Farmers in the straits OF Mackinuw
are in great distress.
Alexander Walker, q colored prohibitionist
speaker, who was badly beaten aud manglcd
after he had made a speech at Prairie Grove,
near webberville, Texas, last week, died Sun.
,ay from the effects of his injuries.
John Doors, while misbehaving at a picnic
in Galloway county, Kentucky, Sunday, was
fatally shot by Frank Collie, manager Of at-
fairs. Doors drew a knife and fatally cut
Collie, as he fell dead at Collie's feet.
Two men who were driving to their home
from the circus at Marinctte, Wisconsin, were
struck Ivy n Chicago and Northwestern train
at IL crossing about a mile outside OF the cit.
aud instantly killed, together with their
horses.
Milwaukee dispatches say that Il gale pass
ed over that place on Tuesday night, the
wind Blowing at the rate of IL mile a minute.
a heavy rain fell for an hour. The buildings
at the state fair grounds, at Cold Spring Park
were wrecked.
Commissioners Cassltman, Oliver and Nc
Carthy, who had been fined $1,000, were sell
fenced Thursday. Informers Lynn and
Klehm, TIE commissioner who plead guilt,
were let off with 5000 each. McClaughcry
WAS sentenced to two years in the peniten.
tiary.
September 5, the anniversary of Geronimo's
surrender to Gen. Miles, has been set as a
day for the presentation Of a sword to Gen
Miles. The sword will be made by Tiffany Il
Co., at 81 cost of 81, 1000. Over 1900 persons
from all sections of Arizona contributed to
the fund.
The roof Of Chatterton's opera house, at
Springfield, Illinois, fell in Tuesday after
noon, carrying a large amount of debris into
tie center of the building, which was serious.
ly damaged. Architects say the accident was
due to the extreme heat and dry weather,
which shrunk the timbers.
A special from Green Bay, Wisconsin, says
that a beer kettle in Rahn's brewery exploded
Wednesday night, scalding seven mel, six of
whom died during the night. The kettle held
sixty barrels of hot water, which poured over
the unfortunate men, literally cooking them.
One of the men will recover.
On Friday night, twelve miles from Macon,
Georgia, Capt. Richard Voolfolk, wife, six
children and Mrs. West, aunt of Mrs. Wool.
folk, we're murdered. A son of Capt. Wool.
folk was arrested for the crime. The up.
posed motive of the murders was to secure
possession of Capt. woolfolk's property.
Rev. Giles G. Rhodes, a Free Methodist
minister Of Lapeer, Mich, was tarred, feath.
cred and ridden on o rail by g mob of thirty
masked men, who took him from q private
house where he was holding service. He al.
leges that he had given otieusc to the men by
his attacks upon the loose morals Of the COM
,nunity.
The vicinity of Waupun, Wisconsin, was
visited on Wednesday by q fearful wind
storm. A number of dwellings and barns
were completely destroyed. Frank johnson,
a farmer. was killed in his barn. Al Portage
a large number Of buildings on the fair
grounds were blown down. 1t is reported eix
men were killed on HORIZON marsh while cut
ting grass.
Great excitement has been caused at james
sille, Minnesota, by the elopement Of Rev.